Every month, we celebrate the writing wins of our community! This month, Grubbies were published, won awards and prizes, secured book deals, and so much more. Let us celebrate you: submit your good news to GrubStreet’s Department of Congratulations.

Instructor and BWOC member Kayla Degala-Paraíso's short story, "The Slaughter of Wild Boars," was recently published by Penumbra Online. It was selected as a “Staff Favorite” for fiction in the Fall 2024 Issue. Yvonne Liu was selected for PEN America's Emerging Voices Workshop Los Angeles. She thanks her Advanced Memoir instructor Javier Sinay for his guidance on her memoir-in-process, I Talk to My Mother in the Clouds. Instructor and BWOC member Yu-Mei Balasingamchow has been accepted for a residency at Ucross in spring 2025. YAWP student Maria Lytrivi's short story "Cassandra," a dark reimagining of the Trojan myth, was included in The Dark Legends of The World anthology by Diania Publications. She would like to thank everyone at GrubStreet for the support she has received and instructor Kayla Degala-Paraíso for introducing her to experimental writing.

Sarah Gregorian recently published (under her pen name TH Forest) her fourth book, Foundations, which is the second book in the Appearances series. Carol R Steinberg told a story at the WGBH show Stories from the Stage on November 15th. She thanks Michelle Seaton, Alysia Abbott, and Aimee Seiff Christian for their support. John Walters's short story "Melt" is being published in the MetroWest Writer's Guild's Fiddlehead Folio in December 2024. He thanks both Sara Rauch, Colin Corrigan, and the students in “Developing Your Short Fiction” and “Advanced Revision and Submission Strategies: Fiction” classes for their help with this piece. Cat Green's poetry chapbook Without Instruction will be published late next year with JAKE.

Janay Garrick’s essay, which she worked on with instructor Ethan Gilsdorf, was recently published by Fourth Genre: “Matriarch Pink: Some Notes on Gender, Religion, and Power.” Linda Button’s essay “Why We Fight” will be included in the Pangyrus print anthology, coming in February. She is eternally indebted to Ethan Gilsdorf and her Essay Incubator family. Meredith L. King's personal essay "Blinking Lights" was published in The Rumpus. Danielle Arostegui's speculative short story "Children of the Sea" was published in Solarpunk Magazine. LaDonna Witmer’s essay "With Fear & Trembling," which she workshopped in Amy Seiff Christian's “Memoir in Progress" class, is included in a new anthology on religious trauma called Take the Fruit.

Ellen Cliggott published a personal essay "The Excalibur" in Rockvale Review. Short Story Incubator student Jaimie Wright's personal essay on running and aging "Letting Go of the Runner's High" was published in The Writers’ Journal. Instructor Tina Tocco's poem "Gone" was reprinted in the December 2024 issue of the U.K.-based poetry journal The Lake. Vinod Busjeet's poem "Notes Towards the Definition of Culture" appears in the Winter 2024 issue of the University of Hawaii Literary Journal Manoa: Karahee from the Cane Fields. Essay Incubator instructor Ethan Gilsdorf published his essay "Plastic Water Bottle: Origin Story" in Witness Magazine.

Memoir Incubator graduate Terry Yanulavich's essay "Baby Steps," which appeared in the literary journal under the sun this past May, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is grateful to Alysia Abbott and her Incubator classmates for their support and encouragement. Another memoir incubator graduate, Karen Kirsten’s, essay “My Mom Claimed Nuns Kept Her Hidden From The Nazis" was published by Huffington Post. She also wants to thank Alysia Abbott and fellow incubees. Kate Woodworth's climate fiction novel Little Great Island will be published by Sibylline Press in May 2025.

Novel and Essay Incubator graduate Karen Wilfrid's essay "An unexpected lesson from Garfield the cat" was published in WBUR's Cognoscenti. She would like to thank her GrubStreet writing group, which developed out of Ursula DeYoung's "Novel in Progress" class. NmaHassan Muhammad’s poem ‘Night Before Eid’ will be included in the Brittle Paper Festive Anthology Volume III. BWOC member Ashley D'Souza's feature story about history, biodiversity, and climate change in the D. Blakeley Hoar Sanctuary was published in the Brookline.News.

BWOC member Melissa A Watkins’s short story "Ol' Big Head" was published in Lightspeed Magazine. She's also one of this month's author spotlights for the magazine. Emily May recently published a personal essay in Buzzfeed centered on the contrasts in receiving emergency women's health care in both Texas and New York. Farah Joan Fard’s feature on the beautiful record "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane has been published on the Grammy Awards website. Instructor Lisa Braxton’s essay “Wild Savannah”was published by Humans of the World.

BWOC member and Teaching Fellow Fabienne François Keck’s short story "Therapy" has been published in the Winter/Spring 2024 issue of The Southampton Review. She gives a hearty thanks to fellow Grubbies Josephine Callahan, Darci Klein, and Ilana Marcus for reading an early draft. Novel Generator graduate Deirdre Hennings’s poem "Midnight, Wisconsin" was published in humana obscura, an online literary and art magazine, on December 14, 2024. Memoir Incubator graduate Tamara MC received agent representation for her book Poetry for English Language Learning: 130+ Exercises for Exploring Language, Culture, and Identity.

Christina Rivera's debut book of essays, My Oceans, is now available for pre-order. An adapted excerpt from the collection "Screaming for Freedom" was just published in The Cut. Christina is especially grateful to Theresa Okokon and the students in Theresa's advanced essay class for their critical feedback that shaped the essay. Giulietta Nardone's tiny story "Third Date" appeared in the December UFO Issue of Blink-Ink.

Essay Incubator graduate Sara Schreur's essay "On ‘Wicked,’ friendship and being changed for good" appeared in WBUR's Cognoscenti. Marcia Yudkin published two personal essays "The Fervent Finger of Blame" in The Quiet Reader and "Reaching Back" in the Stillpoint Quarterly. Janet Banks has published her poetry collection Enough Time. She expresses thanks to GrubStreet's instructors and classes, especially Walter Smelt's "Happy Accidents, Poetic Inspiration", Aimee Suzara's "Beginning Poetry", and Carolyn Zaikowski's "Advanced Poetry".

BWOC member Chital Mehta got accepted into the short fiction cohort of the Tin House 2025 Winter Workshop. She’s thankful for GrubStreet's stipend program and Muse conference. Kiera Breitenbach's story "Now And At The Hour" was recently published in the Winter 2025 issue of The Threepenny Review. They thank instructor Evgeniya Dame for the help and support. Incubator graduate Jennifer Dines’s essay "Group of Artists, 1908" was published in Anti-Heroin Chic's December issue. She wrote this piece with support from Jennifer Crystal and her classmates in the Writing to Heal Intensive.

Instructor and BWOC member Yu-Mei Balasingamchow was accepted to the Poets & Writers' Get The Word Out publicity incubator for early-career authors. Incubator graduate Dr. Tamara MC signed a book deal for her upcoming teaching manual, Poetry for English Language Learning: 130+ Exercises for Exploring Language, Culture, and Identity, scheduled for publication in 2026. Maggie Huff-Rousselle had two poems published in two different issues of The Lyric Magazine this year, “In Search of an Ending” and “Sonnet for the Field Mice.” She thanks Otto Vock for his class on publishing poetry, where she found some publications that seemed promising for submission.

Instructor Mary Carroll Moore's third novel Last Bets, a feminist thriller about an artist with second sight who gets trapped in the gambling underworld of a Caribbean island, was included in Kirkus Reviews' Top 100 Best Indie Books of the Year for 2024. BWOC member Amit Shah's second collection Revisiting the Mines: Essays and Excavations has been published by Paper Lantern Books in India. He would like to thank instructor Samantha Shanley for her close reading and guidance, and he'd like to thank GrubStreet's Boston Writers of Color Literary Support program.